today I’m going to tell you a little
story so one day I was in yoga class and
when you think of yoga you think of very
peaceful and a calm place and you should
especially have peace in your mind
however I didn’t I just constantly kept
on thinking or as my dad would like to
say my brain was being a monkey it kept
on jumping from one place to another and
so our supervisor told us why don’t you
observe what you’re thinking so that’s
what I did and I started observing and
those results for a little shocking to
me because I was thinking about streaks
now streaks is a so feature on a social
media platform called snapchat and what
you do is you send a picture to a
contact and they send your picture back
like that you go back and forth back and
forth and there’s no limit you can go as
long as you want and when you do have a
streak a little number pops beside that
contact so for example if I have a
streak for 50 days with someone then
there will be a little number that’s us
50 next to that contact and people take
this so far there are two people in my
class that having streak worth more than
six hundred and fifty days that is
insane and then one night I was really
tired and I just did a lot of schoolwork
and I just wanted to sleep but I
realized that I still hadn’t sent my
streaks so I took a picture so I
clicking all the contacts but as I was
choosing all my contacts I fell asleep
with my phone in my hand and the next
morning I woke up and looked at my phone
and it turns out I lost more than 20
streets and I knew what was coming
because you know how people get hate
mails I got hate snapchats having people
being mad at me because I lost our
streak and then I had to restart them
and it just keeps on going and there is
no end to it so I asked myself a
question what is it that we as humans
have done that
social media has taken over our lives
they start doing my research and it
turns out that every single news article
out there on the Internet has a negative
view on social media and they’re not the
only ones website news articles it’s the
way that media portrays social media at
these days but and we get influenced by
that for example when I’m just home in
the weekend just chilling on my own not
disturbing anyone just growing the
social media I hear someone in my house
scream hey Simran get off your phone
most likely it’s gonna be my mom
sometimes dad it’s mostly the mom and
what they don’t realize is that I am
learning a lot from social media whether
it’s about different communities genders
global issues anything I’m still
learning every scroll I make and that is
what most of the world does not realize
social media has a very positive
influence on us but we choose to ignore
it and look at the negative effects of
there was recently a Florida shooting in
a school there’s a mass shooting and 17
students had died and the government
wasn’t taking in the action and the
students thought that was wrong so
they’re like hey we want to do something
to step up and actually do something for
the people that have been gone that that
passed away so they organized the entire
March they started raising awareness
they’re like hey we’re doing something
join us if you want to and they had a
March and it was one of the most
successful March in the United States
since 10 years ago and this all started
when they started raising awareness on
social media gun gun shop started
banning
specific types of weapons some weapons
were banned in the US like in the entire
of us and like that we are making a
change in the world every single day
through social media well we don’t
realize that we have been giving an
incredible tool right at our fingertips
but we’re not using it I could apply our
real-life situation right now to a quote
called with great power comes great
responsibility our power is social media
but we are not fulfilling our
responsibilities yesterday one of my
friends posted a picture and all of us
started commenting hey you look so good
you look amazing I love this picture and
like that we be probably made our day or
that one like and one comment probably
made her so happy we are spreading
positive content and I believe if we do
not want to be a disgrace to the
previous generations and actually set an
example for the coming ones I say we use
social media wisely because we can really make history thank you
story so one day I was in yoga class and
when you think of yoga you think of very
peaceful and a calm place and you should
especially have peace in your mind
however I didn’t I just constantly kept
on thinking or as my dad would like to
say my brain was being a monkey it kept
on jumping from one place to another and
so our supervisor told us why don’t you
observe what you’re thinking so that’s
what I did and I started observing and
those results for a little shocking to
me because I was thinking about streaks
now streaks is a so feature on a social
media platform called snapchat and what
you do is you send a picture to a
contact and they send your picture back
like that you go back and forth back and
forth and there’s no limit you can go as
long as you want and when you do have a
streak a little number pops beside that
contact so for example if I have a
streak for 50 days with someone then
there will be a little number that’s us
50 next to that contact and people take
this so far there are two people in my
class that having streak worth more than
six hundred and fifty days that is
insane and then one night I was really
tired and I just did a lot of schoolwork
and I just wanted to sleep but I
realized that I still hadn’t sent my
streaks so I took a picture so I
clicking all the contacts but as I was
choosing all my contacts I fell asleep
with my phone in my hand and the next
morning I woke up and looked at my phone
and it turns out I lost more than 20
streets and I knew what was coming
because you know how people get hate
mails I got hate snapchats having people
being mad at me because I lost our
streak and then I had to restart them
and it just keeps on going and there is
no end to it so I asked myself a
question what is it that we as humans
have done that
social media has taken over our lives
they start doing my research and it
turns out that every single news article
out there on the Internet has a negative
view on social media and they’re not the
only ones website news articles it’s the
way that media portrays social media at
these days but and we get influenced by
that for example when I’m just home in
the weekend just chilling on my own not
disturbing anyone just growing the
social media I hear someone in my house
scream hey Simran get off your phone
most likely it’s gonna be my mom
sometimes dad it’s mostly the mom and
what they don’t realize is that I am
learning a lot from social media whether
it’s about different communities genders
global issues anything I’m still
learning every scroll I make and that is
what most of the world does not realize
social media has a very positive
influence on us but we choose to ignore
it and look at the negative effects of
there was recently a Florida shooting in
a school there’s a mass shooting and 17
students had died and the government
wasn’t taking in the action and the
students thought that was wrong so
they’re like hey we want to do something
to step up and actually do something for
the people that have been gone that that
passed away so they organized the entire
March they started raising awareness
they’re like hey we’re doing something
join us if you want to and they had a
March and it was one of the most
successful March in the United States
since 10 years ago and this all started
when they started raising awareness on
social media gun gun shop started
banning
specific types of weapons some weapons
were banned in the US like in the entire
of us and like that we are making a
change in the world every single day
through social media well we don’t
realize that we have been giving an
incredible tool right at our fingertips
but we’re not using it I could apply our
real-life situation right now to a quote
called with great power comes great
responsibility our power is social media
but we are not fulfilling our
responsibilities yesterday one of my
friends posted a picture and all of us
started commenting hey you look so good
you look amazing I love this picture and
like that we be probably made our day or
that one like and one comment probably
made her so happy we are spreading
positive content and I believe if we do
not want to be a disgrace to the
previous generations and actually set an
example for the coming ones I say we use
social media wisely because we can really make history thank you
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